Sutter's Mill

MAY 28, 2012

Mainstream hardware – many kinds of parallelism: What’s the relationship among multi-core CPUs, hardware threads , SIMD vector units (Intel SSE and AVX , ARM Neon ), and GPGPU (general-purpose computation on GPUs, which I covered at C++ and Beyond 2011 )? At C++ and Beyond 2011, the attendees (audience!)

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C++ Hardware Best Practices Tuning 40

Sutter's Mill

APRIL 14, 2011

Scott Meyers, Andrei Alexandrescu and I are continuing to craft and announce the technical program for C++ and Beyond (C&B) 2011 , and two more sessions are now posted. All talks are brand-new material created specifically for C&B 2011. Here are short blurbs; follow the links for longer descriptions.

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C++ Programming Strategy Scalability 40

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

The success of both tablets and smartphones (and to a lesser extent the fringe battlegrounds of e-readers and other specialized devices), as well as the rapid maturation of cloud-based services, has created a tech hardware war, an OS war, a bidding war for tech firms, and spawned a feeding frenzy in application development.

Hardware 40

Hardware Internet Internet Mobile 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 117

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you're a web developer not living under a rock, you undoubtedly got word of last week's big Safari 16.4 By mandating proof of developer enthusiasm for features, extensive test suites, and accurate specifications, the catch-up process has been put on rails for Apple. What choice do developers have, but to sit and stew?

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Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Sutter's Mill

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I said something similar to the above, but with two important differences: I said hardware “threads,” not only hardware “cores” – it was about the amount of hardware parallelism available on a mainstream system. Figure 4 : How much concurrency does your program need in order to exploit given hardware?

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Hardware Programming Scalability Software 40

All Things Distributed

JULY 20, 2015

To be robust and scalable, this key/value store needs to be distributed for durability and availability, to protect against network partitions or hardware failures. Hailo was founded in 2011 and has been built on AWS since Day 1. containers stopping and starting). containers stopping and starting).

Latency 166

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Meanwhile, developer behaviour offers little hope: Median mobile JavaScript payloads have only grown since 2016, now hovering above 400KiB of script transferred, or nearly 2.5MiB of uncompressed JS. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Compared to devices wealthy developers carry, the performance is night and (blinding) day.

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Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Now welcome to the hardware jungle. 2011 was special: it’s the year that we completed the transition to parallel computing in all mainstream form factors, with the arrival of multicore tablets (e.g., The free lunch is over. In 2005, however, mainstream computing hit a wall. Galaxy S II, Droid X2, iPhone 4S). There’s no going back.

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Hardware Games Operating System Software 40